On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 01:16:43PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Sat, 2019-01-19 at 11:08 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >So far I have done a proof-of-concept hack and demonstrated that >> >running two instances does in fact work nicely without anything >> >obvious breaking. The console selection still needs some work/checking >> >(I've run out of time for that tonight, but it can easily be fished >> >out of the kernel command line args. (or we could get fancier). >> >> Nod. Potentially we might end up of running on multiple >> consoles. > >IIRC (and it hasn't changed in the years since I knew this stuff) we >already have this on some of the netconsole install images for >arm{el,hf}, you end up with an installer on serial and one on the ssh >connection. Not an identical situation since I think the second one is >only spawned when you login via ssh, but some sort of precedence I >guess!
Yup, the netconsole case was exactly my inspiration for going down this route. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me